For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings set out in this section, unless the context specifically indicates otherwise:
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five (5) days at twenty degrees Celsius (20°C), expressed in milligrams per liter. Laboratory procedures shall be in accordance with the latest edition of "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater".
BUILDING DRAIN: That part of the lower horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer beginning five feet (5') outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER: The extension from the building drain to the public sewer or other place of disposal; also called house connection.
COD (CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND): The quantity of oxygen utilized in the chemical oxidation of organic matter, expressed in milligrams per liter, as determined in accordance with standard laboratory procedures as set out in the latest edition of "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater".
CITY: The area within the corporate boundaries of the city of Frazee, as presently established or as amended by ordinance or other legal actions at a future time. The term "city", when used herein, may also be used to refer to the city council and its authorized representatives.
COMBINED SEWER: A sewer originally designated to receive both surface water runoff and sewage.
GARBAGE: Solid waste resulting from the domestic and commercial preparation, cooking and dispensing of food and from the handling, storage or sale of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, vegetables or condemned food.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES: The solid, liquid, or gaseous wastes resulting from an industrial or manufacturing process, trade or business, or from the development, recovery, or processing of natural resources.
NPDES PERMIT (NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT): The system for issuing, conditioning and denying permits for the discharge of pollutants from point sources into the navigable waters, the contiguous zone, and the oceans by the environmental protection agency pursuant to the federal water pollution control act of 1972, sections 402 and 405.
NATURAL OUTLET: Any outlet into a watercourse, pond, ditch, lake or other body of surface or ground water.
NORMAL DOMESTIC STRENGTH WASTES: Wastes which are characterized by two hundred fifty milligrams per liter (250 mg/l) BOD, and two hundred eighty five milligrams per liter (285 mg/l) suspended solids.
OTHER WASTES: Garbage, municipal refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, sand, ashes, oil, tar, chemicals, offal, and other substances except sewage and other wastes.
PERSON: Any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation, municipal corporation, governmental unit, or group.
pH: The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution.
PROCESS WATER: Any water used in the manufacturing, preparation or production of goods, materials or food. Process water is an industrial waste.
PUBLIC SEWER: Any sewer owned or operated by a unit or agency of government.
SANITARY SEWER: A sewer which carries sewage and to which storm, surface and ground water are not intentionally admitted.
SANITARY WASTE: The liquid and water carried wastes discharged from sanitary plumbing facilities.
SEWAGE OR WASTEWATER: The water carried waste products from residences, public buildings, institutions, industrial establishments or other buildings including the excrements or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, together with such ground, surface and storm waters as may be present.
SEWER: A pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, industrial wastes or other waste liquids.
SEWER SYSTEM: Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains and all other devices and appliances appurtenant thereto, used for collecting or conducting sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal.
SHALL; MAY: "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.
SLUG: Any discharge of water, wastewater or industrial waste which, in concentration of any given constituent, or in quantity of flow, exceeds, for any period of duration longer than fifteen (15) minutes, more than five (5) times the average twenty four (24) hour concentration of flows during the normal operation.
STORM SEWER OR STORM DRAIN: A sewer which carries storm or surface water and drainage, but excludes sewage and industrial waste, other than unpolluted cooling or process waters.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS: Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory filtering in accordance with the latest edition of "Standard Methods For The Examination Of Water And Wastewater".
UNPOLLUTED WATER: Clean water uncontaminated by industrial wastes, other wastes, or any substance which renders such water unclean or noxious or impure so as to be actually or potentially harmful or detrimental or injurious to the public health, safety or welfare; to domestic, commercial, industrial or recreational uses; or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life.
WASTEWATER FACILITIES: The structures, equipment, or processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic and industrial wastes and dispose of the effluent.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS OR TREATMENT WORKS: An arrangement of devices and structures for treatment of wastewater, industrial waste and sludge; sometimes used as synonymous for "wastewater treatment plant" or "waste treatment plant" or "water pollution control plant" or "sewage treatment plant". (Ord. 96, 10-5-1987)